I was doing some research on using Win32::FileOp for this thread, and I noticed while looking through the source that all of the constant values are inplemented as subs - e.g: sub FO_MOVE     () { 0x01 }
In the module I've written, all of my similar constant declarations were with use constant..., like this:
use constant PROCESSOR_INTEL_386 => 386;
I can see that defining constants as subs avoids reliance on constant, but isn't that something that's pretty standard with a Perl distribution? Are there other issues here or tradeoffs that are worth knowing?

Guildenstern
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In reply to What's the Right Way to declare constants in packages? by Guildenstern

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